Uma análise discursiva da noção foucaultiana de monumento

Abstract

The conceptual tools of Michel Foucault are widely used in documentary research in the human sciences and language studies, confirmed through institutionalization processes such as the creation of the Grupo de Trabalho Estudos Discursivos Foucaultianos, affiliated to the Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística (ANPOLL). We believe that creating intelligibility about his method of discourse analysis is a way to insert ourselves preliminarily in Foucauldian studies and to contribute to the science of language by adding one more angle among the multiple possible angles to its object. Due to this interest, we propose to take a closer look at the concept of monument, due to its double central position — for guiding the archaeological task “the intrinsic description of the monument”, in the opening pages of The Archaeology of Knowledge (2007 [1969]) — and secondary, because, although currently mentioned mencionada (Deleuze (2013 [1986]); Veiga-Neto (2007); Dreyfus; Rabinow (1995); Barbosa (2004)) by commentators, the notion is rarely treated in greater detail. For the execution of this bibliographical research, we resorted to the theoretical and methodological constructs from Michel Foucault that were considered more appropriate to our objectives, dedicating to them the methodological section of this dissertation. With his conceptual tools, we will present the elaboration process of a series of statements in which the term appears and, then, the considerations that we can make from the study of this material. Starting from the Foucauldian vision according to which the work does not confer unity to a discourse, in the series we will consider excerpts from philosophers such as Martial Guéroult and Georges Canguilhem, who operate in Foucault’s epistemological neighborhoods both for conducting historical studies and for employing, in different ways, the notion of monument for the purpose of methodological explanation. After analyzing the regularities that guide the use of the concept in the proposed series, we reflect, based on two contemporary works in language studies, on possible contributions of notion to the field.